🔗 Posibility to switch OFF Elementor AI (Related to #22796)

[necrosoul]

Prerequisites

• I have searched for similar features requests in both open and closed tickets and cannot find a duplicate.
• The feature is still missing in the latest stable version of Elementor ( Elementor Pro )

What problem is your feature request going to solve? Please describe.

I dont need this feature, cause working only at english language, and paid. I dont want to see this feature, better will be if in setting we will have ability to shutdown this AI.

Describe the solution you'd like

In settings need button (or radio) to shutdown / enable AI.

Describe alternatives you've considered

No response

Additional context

No response

[lensbreak]

+1 but pretty sure they are not gonna do that to push their new part of business model (see subscription for AI credits). also still waiting them to fix the role manager so containers design can not be changed by others, only content acces. it will takes another 2 years as always i guess...

[necrosoul]

Maybe...

But if this are open source (GPL) and we can disable / enable features like containers / others ... AI this is feature too. And if i DONT want use it - i must have posibility to disable this))

But at default - can be enabled. This is not a problem)

[ronnyadsetts]

I arrived here looking for the same thing. After editing one of our customer's sites, I was frustrated by the 'rewrite with AI' links absolutely everywhere! I have no desire nor need for this "feature", neither do I want our non-technical website customers to be faced with this! We have to support this nonsense. I appreciate that some folks may want to have computers write their content but please make it optional in the UI.

I mean, this is on the Pro plugin where you don't expect up-sells. We're paying already, thank you!

[iMiek]

Totally agree with @ronnyadsetts.
I own sites with photo galleries and it's annoying. All images are check by "AI" for alt-descriptions. It's slowing down a lot!!! Pleas add the possibility to switch AI off.

[iMiek]

Found a tip on wppagebuilders.com → disable-ai-elementor:
You can use your theme functions.php file which you can access from the Appearance → Theme File Editor or other means (such as using the Code Snippet plugin) that allow you to add_action to your WordPress website.

Below is the code snippet to disable AI in Elementor:

add_action('elementor/editor/before_enqueue_scripts', function () {
    echo "<style>";
    echo ".e-ai-button {display: none;}";
    echo "</style>";
  
});

[ronnyadsetts]

Of course, that only hides the AI button in the UI. Anything that's happening in the background with Elementor and AI will still happen. I guess it would however prevent our customers from clicking it in their naivety.

[iMiek]

I know. But it's a temporary solution till Elementor gives a better one.....

[perks98]

Not sure if this is useful to anyone or if this works well but if you use the following PHP in a child theme it should remove the AI button on controls so its HTML doesn't render rather than using CSS to hide, just an alternative.

function remove_ai_control( $element, $section_id, $args ) {

		foreach( $element->get_controls() as $control ) {
			$element->update_control(
				$control['name'],
				[
					'ai' => false,
				]
			);
		}
}
add_action( 'elementor/element/before_section_start', 'remove_ai_control', 10, 3 );

[squadcar]

Seems to do the trick! Thanks @perks98 :)

[c2wd]

function remove_elementor_ai_script_from_editor() {
    if ( \Elementor\Plugin::$instance->editor->is_edit_mode() ) {
        wp_dequeue_script( 'elementor-ai' );
    }
}
add_action( 'elementor/editor/after_enqueue_scripts', 'remove_elementor_ai_script_from_editor' );

[squadcar]

This, combined with the one above, seems to kill 99.99% of the AI junk. Haven't seen any controls or popups anywhere since.

[kristiangl]

100% agree. We should be able to switch this off (also switch off the Elementor Optimizer prompts) that are everywhere, especially for client websites. It adds so much visual clutter and makes it so much harder/more intimidating for clients who aren't as technologically minded.

[speedxcz]

I agree, I get 5 times a day from customers angry emails why they have an ad on a paid site. We pay for a plugin and don't want to constantly see advertising on Ai, or on a plugin to optimize images etc... Pretty soon it's going to be that we have to click through a forest of ads to get to the site edits.

[mbaierl]

@see https://github.com/orgs/elementor/discussions/27354 - my bug request has been closed.
Seems there is no awareness for how agencies work and what troubles those upsells cause.

[nicholaszein]

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Discussions

• 🔗 Ability to disable features (Announcement Popups, Elementor AI) (Duplicate of #22853) #22796

[nicholaszein]

A word of advice, and a warning: Offensive or Disrespectful remarks, or any behavior that does not align with the Code of Conduct will grant the author a block from contributing or participating in this repository. Please, be respectful. Keep the conversation amicable and civilized. I have no pleasure in having to block users. I am a user myself. But I will do it if I see any comment breaking the Code of Conduct.

[necrosoul]

I dont seen any disrespectful remarks.

WE just want to be listened and developer must do some buttons to enable / disable functions which u dont need.
Cause this is ruin our business / job.

Can you speak with them and say our opinion? will be great.

WE DONT want to delete this function. But we want just to have posibility to disable it.

[squadcar]

No kidding, people expressing their frustration with an issue that has been affecting pro users for at least a year now, with zero response from Elementor, is not being disrespectful. Ignoring your pro users on the other hand...